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National security reporter for the Daily Beast & toddler dad on book leave. spencer.ackerman@thedailybeast.com FBE4 2E53 A534 7875 BBD8 54B7 77DB 7CD3 9C8A 5582

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Joined August 2008
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    Apr 30

    Some Personal News. Explanations for how the US reached its nationalist moment have overlooked something: the war on terror. Its generation-long brutality has left a toxic political legacy. Coming in 2021: my 1st book, REIGN OF TERROR, the story of what The Forever War wrought.

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  2. 10 hours ago

    This. I’ve never understood why it was supposed to be a relevant question.

    Whether Assange is a journalist, is not the best argument in re 1A argument, because journalists are not the only folks with 1A rights to the press. Pornographers have 1A rights presumably too, for example.
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    13 hours ago

    It's sick to watch liberals cheer the prosecution of Assange by Trump's Justice Department, headed by William "Exonerate the Iran Contra Criminals" Barr, as though this prosecution is not a massive attack on press freedom, rather some gotcha about the 2016 election. It's deranged

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    13 hours ago

    BREAKING: In a stunning escalation of the war on the free press, the Trump administration has indicted a publisher for revealing government secrets.

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  5. 14 hours ago

    Huh, but I read in those op-eds that

    "Bin Salman has been leaving the official establishment virtually untouched, while rubbing out the very thinkers challenging the conservative status quo"
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  6. 19 hours ago

    I highly recommend writing a book to this

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  7. 20 hours ago

    “‘Last year we had two different cops “admiring” our work,’ said John Stewart. ‘One told us “they don’t want to fight you guys again they are pussies.” The other thanked us as we walked by him.’”

    ICYMI (I almost did), 's got leaked chats from the Proud Boys.
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  8. May 22

    No one a’tall: Me: Less than two months into book leave and two chapters drafted. The bad news is they’re 50,000 words cumulatively, so I’m going to be chiseling a ton of stone.

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    May 22

    In some parts of the country, this is called “lying.”

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  10. May 22

    Rahm backed the Chicago police’s denials, as did most Chicago reporters. The thing is, those denials were lies. Our lawsuit actually led to us deposing police officials, and we learned that indeed, CPD’s records ensured people were disappeared while there.

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  11. May 22

    Here is just one of the stories that & I reported on Homan Square, about the mechanics of how the Chicago police disappear people there: Homan Square was open for every day of Emanuel’s mayoralty. It remains open today.

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  12. May 22

    In 2015, I reported on a warehouse in Chicago where police take mostly black & Hispanic Chicagoans for incommunicado interrogations before booking them at regular police stations. Emanuel, up for re-election, gave a nondenial denial. I sued CPD for their own records proving it.

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  13. May 22

    It was preordained I would spoil her

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    May 22

    hey look, it's one of the lawmakers who just voted to ban almost all abortions

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  15. May 21

    Daughter described a donut as a chocolate bagel today

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    May 21

    In West Virginia we have a name for “Swag Bucks” - SCRIP. We literally went to war with the coal companies to get paid in actual legal tender. Fuck Amazon.

    Amazon has gamified its warehouses: Work faster so you can beat your colleagues' virtual dragon, win company Swag Bucks and keep your job
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    May 21

    Anyway, the Senate just voted 52-47 to move forward with making Howard Nielson -- a guy who spent years fighting marriage equality and was part of the team behind GWB's torture memos -- a lifetime federal judge.

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    May 21

    EXCLUSIVE:

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  19. May 21

    I can’t honestly believe Beto is so bad at both politics and punk as to invite a discussion on whether he is punk enough.

    V important news u must know before Beto’s CNN town hall tonight In 2015, before a Senate run, before presidential aspirations, Beto made me a punk playlist. I present it now as an anthropological curiosity, an unvarsnished look at a candidate’s taste
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  20. May 21

    Convicted as well. The Senate is going to confirm this crony.

    . Shanahan refuses to answer a question from about whether pardoning service members who are accused of war crimes is a good idea
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  21. May 21

    What's the best part of writing a book about the war on terrorism, you ask? well

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